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Old 06-04-2019, 09:15 PM   #230
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They'll get through it all and be done by 7 or 8pm. The draft is a well oiled machine. They have a timer to get up and go announce their pick. They announce their pick and the player gets to the stage and then Sportsnet has a quick 45 second or so interview with the player, and maybe another quick one with somebody from the team, and then the clock is running again and we wait to see the next team's pick. It goes relatively quick, 5 minute per pick maybe? Sometimes it goes 7 or 8 minutes if "We have a trade to announce".

From what I remember from 2017, it took roughly three and a half hours to do the first round (and there were some trades). The second day just blows by.
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